Tepco Says Radiation Samples Were 'significantly undercounted'

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 Tepco Says Fukushima Radiation 'Significantly' Undercounted
By Jacob Adelman and Masumi Suga Feb 25, 2014 12:26 AM PT
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Source: Japan National Press Club Pool via Bloomberg

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) is re-analyzing 164 water samples collected last year at the wrecked Fukushima atomic plant because previous readings "significantly undercounted" radiation levels.

The utility known as Tepco said the levels were undercounted due to errors in its testing of beta radiation, which includes strontium-90, an isotope linked to bone cancer. None of the samples were taken from seawater, the company said today in an e-mailed statement.

"These errors occurred during a time when the number of the samplings rapidly increased as the result of a series of events since last April, including groundwater reservoir leakage and a major leak from a storage tank," according to the statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-25/tepco-says-fukushima-radiation-significantly-undercounted.html

None of the samples were taken from seawater,

This sounds like an undropped shoe. If their counts were 'in error' in one place, surely they would be in others?

rose

[WarToad]

Freaking Tepco.  Lies, damned lies, and &^$%#$% damned lies.